Building traps for perfect birds

Hello everyone!

Yesterday night we tried again night-catching: it was very successful (7 birds) for the group (Aksel and Solenn) that went to Cormorant Lake, but unsuccessful for me and Prescillia. We saw some birds at the tip (Grenen), but we haven’t caught one. At least we observed different beautiful Natterjack toad (Strandtudse, Epidalea calamita).

Today was a very slow day for some of us: the wind was too strong to ring at Kabeltromlen, so we did just observations. Aksel and Solenn went at Nordstrand and they had a very good day. Many divers (more than 150, mainly Red-throated diver, Rødstrubet lom) were seen migrating and resting, moreover 3 Little gulls (Dværgmåge) and 2 Arctic skua (Almindelig kjove) passed. The Snow buntings (Snespurv) are approximately 60: we can’t wait to see them in hand! While Aksel and Solenn were having fun observing, me and Prescillia worked with the computers, at home. Hanelie needs some rest because she is a little sick and we hope she will be back 100% healthy soon.

After lunch, we looked all together a recorded-session about Red polls (Acanthis sp.): we know now how to recognize the different species, their areal and how to assess age and sex (we are ready to ring many of them now)! 

The high number of Snow buntings (Snespurv) flying near Grenen made us think about building different traps to catch them, and we spent the rest of the day doing that.

Ringing Cormorant Lake (yesterday, 06.10.2022 night)

Enkeltbekkasin : 7

Total: 7

Dagens observationer kan ses her

People at the station : Diana Sciandra, Hanelie Sidhu, Solenn Boucher, Prescillia Lemesle, Aksel Munkholm, Simon S. Christiansen, Lisa Vergin and our guests Stig and Grethe